Enda Walsh

Enda Walsh

Enda Walsh is a multi-award-winning Irish playwright. He lives in London. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and has been performed internationally since 1998.

His recent plays include: Medicine at the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival and Galway International Arts Festival; Arlington at the 2016 Galway International Festival; an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits for the Royal Court (2015); Ballyturk and Room 303 at the 2014 Galway International Arts Festival; Misterman, presented by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival in Ireland, London and New York (2011–2012); and several plays for Druid Theatre Company, including Penelope, which has been presented in Ireland, America and London, from 2010–2011, The New Electric Ballroom, which played Ireland, Australia, Edinburgh, London, New York and LA from 2008–2009, and The Walworth Farce, which played Ireland, Edinburgh, London and New York, as well as an American and Australian tour, from 2007–2010.

He collaborated with David Bowie on the musical Lazarus (New York Theatre Workshop, 2015, and West End, 2016), and won a Tony Award in 2012 for writing the book for the musical Once, seen on Broadway, in the West End and on a US tour.

His other plays include Delirium (Theatre O/Barbican), which played Dublin and a British tour in 2008; Chatroom (National Theatre), which played at the National Theatre and on tour in Britain and Asia (2006–2007); and The Small Things (Paines Plough), which played London and Ireland (2005).

His early plays include Bedbound (Dublin Theatre Festival) and Disco Pigs (Corcadorca).

His film work includes Disco Pigs (Temple Films/Renaissance) and Hunger (Blast/FILM4), winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

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Sucking Dublin

A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

    misterman (2001 edition)

    A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.

      Disco Pigs

      Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits

      Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

        My Friend Duplicity

        A one-act duologue by Enda Walsh which went on to inspire his play Ballyturk.

        Published in volume Enda Walsh Plays: Two

          Room 303

          A short monologue inspired by the Third Epistle of John and first produced by the Bush Theatre, London, as part of the Sixty-Six Books season in 2011.

          Published in volume Enda Walsh Plays: Two

            Kitchen

            A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.

            Published in volume Arlington

              A Girl's Bedroom

              A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.

              Published in volume Arlington

                Medicine

                A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.

                Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays

                  The Same

                  A play about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution.

                  Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays

                    How These Desperate Men Talk

                    A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

                    Lynndie's Gotta Gun

                    A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

                    The Small Things

                    A fierce and devastating fable about enforced silence.

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